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Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October
JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. 'This is the same system we have in place today,' Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. 'The only difference is that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.' The cable provider insisted that 250 GB is "an extremely large amount of data, much more than a typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. ... As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage,' Comcast said Thursday. 'If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use,' according to the AUP."
That's still not much of a limit. 250GB/month is over 8GB/day. I don't think I downloaded that much even when I was on a college connection.
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2 dvd's every single day.
2 distros...2 movies...every day.
Truthfully...how many of you actually suck down 250GB per month?
If you watch all your 'tv' streaming or torrent, then maybe/almost/no way. But 250GB/month is actually quite a lot.
/and finally, someone is actually putting a number on 'unlimited'
windows itself might push you over the limit with all the netbios spam!
No, you're still thinking like a slashdot reader.
These hypothetical families are not going to be watching these over the net. I don't watch streaming HD and know no one that does.
Gone!
4 children?? Wow, is your sister a whore or something?
Sounds like its time to get a fucking hobby. Holy shit. Talk about you having no life and being a lazy parent. 250gb from movie downloads? How about spending some time with your kids instead of letting them watch movies all day.
Yeah, but if you used 250 gallons of water a month your water bill would be $1000. You see most things that are unlimited cost more the more you use. With cable internet it has been one price fits all. You know the cable companies have to pay by usage for those nice big wide open pipes. I really don't see what the complaint is I mean 250GB a month What have you got a 50 TB hard drive? That's an insane number. How many people are going to use more than 3TB of bandwidth a year? Other than ./?
Y'all need to grow up, this is a good thing.
I think you don't know what average means. Take a minute to google for the difference between mean and median.
I always thought it was that way (or when I started with comcast I think I remember having to pretend there was no router as they tried to charge extra for it years ago) until some of my female friends got set up in their new apartment. The tech was clearly an idiot and didn't know how to set up a consumer router but the fact that he tried shows that you can never underestimate the power of the female form (especially when it comes up against "hands off" policies).
Bottles.